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As I suspected. They can't afford to have all 3 in the team without breaking the FFP rules. They won't be offloading Mbappe. He's still so young and can only get better. I don't think Mbappe is going anywhere regardless. He'll either sign a new contract or he'll wait till next year so he can...

He's probably only staying because we can't afford to sign him. He probably knows Messi won't stay at Barcelona anyway. Besides, he's on the decline pretty badly. He's still a very good player, but he's nowhere the player he was 2 years ago.... and he gets injured an awful lot.

Someone finally gets it. They just lost 200m from COVID, and they also lost a lot from their TV deal. They simply cannot afford to sign Messi due to the FFP. If anything, they probably have to sell or release players in the summer to balance the books, especially if they're trying to renew...

It makes more sense for Messi to go to City than it does to PSG. He knows Pep and Aguero so well. City has a better team overall than PSG does. City is in a better position in regards to FFP; PSG just lost over 200m due to COVID.... and they also lost a lot of their TV money in France. PSG...

We can't afford to keep him. There's no way he agrees to a 50% salary reduction if he knows he can get better elsewhere. Even with a 50% salary reduction, he's going to get 25m a year.... and that doesn't include his bonuses. So, we could end up paying him 50m plus a year in any case. Besides...

I don't think we can afford to keep him. Even if he agrees to take a 50% reduction from his salary, he's still going to be on 25m plus a year.

PSG cannot afford to have Messi, Mbappe and Neymar due to the FFP. Also, they're supposed to be giving Neymar and Mbappe salary increases from their new contract extensions, so you're talking at least 650k a week for Neymar (probably way more), 450k a week for Mbappe.... and Messi will be on at...

That just shows how good Messi really is. He's been well below his best but still scores and assists a shit ton of goals.

It's about that big loyalty bonus.

We're totally fucked in the summer if Messi decides to leave for free. We have to pay him a massive loyalty bonus (stacking on the debt). Another masterstroke from Bartomeu.

Griezmann will stay. Simply because nobody will pay the asking price or his salary.

It'll be the same crap he's been saying for the past 12 months. Xavi this and Xavi that. We'll need to sign Messi as soon as possible. We'll try to use players from La Masia more. We won't overspend on players (which will be false). I don't trust him. I also don't want Laporta. Laporta was very...

Who can we afford? We have no money to bring in a quality manager. We have no money to let Koeman go. Yeah, we could bring in Xavi, but I feel that's going to end in disaster. He doesn't have much experience, and he won't have any money to change things.

Is he sure about waiting till the summer to leave? Not sure what could change his mind. Yeah, a new president will come in and promise him the world. But in reality, we have no money and we don't have a good manager. We're in mountains of debt. Our squad is far from competing.

For each game he plays his valuation goes down.

Saying he could be out for at least 2 months..... with the possibility of being out for 4 months.

He's already admitted that even with a new president that we can't compete. We have no money, and we certainly don't have the team to compete. We also can't afford to keep Messi. I would be fuming if we still pay Messi close to what he's getting now. No 34-year-old should be getting over 500k a...

Font or Laporta can't offer him a good sporting project. Those sporting projects need money to compete. Also, those sporting projects take time.... time Messi doesn't have. Messi may want to leave for another team for 3 years and then come back to Barcelona and help with those sporting projects...

The problem with that is.... Messi has already confirmed it's going to be extremely difficult for Barcelona to compete regardless of who the president is. He knows whoever comes in that we're not going to have any money or the team to compete next season. We probably can't even afford to let...

I agree. We should either sell him in January or let him go in the summer. I'm just saying.... he's either going to sign a contract extension or he's going to City. If he does stay, his salary is going to get reduced by at least 50%. Will Messi accept that?